Note: Brian Terrell delivered this talk at the Oct. 1 peace witness sponsored by PeaceWorksKC, at Whiteman AFB, near Knob Noster, MO. Leading…

We greeted old and new friends, sang, prayed, shared food and distributed pink shovels and conspired to dig our way into the base, onto the runway and disrupt the practice

Stopping the Next Catastrophe Before it Begins

The conviction that the U.S. could win a nuclear war was key to the nuclear policy early in the Reagan administration

The illusion that war can be made safer and the control of repressed people made kinder through the use of drones only makes war and repression more likely

We must urgently demand a ban on the production, trade and use of weaponized drones and an end to military and police drone surveillance

Peace in Yemen, peace in the world, demands no less than an end to the production, trade and use of weaponized drones

The wasting disease of normalcy is the far greater existential threat and our survival requires that we meet it with at least the same courage, generosity and ingenuity

From his prison cell in a year of mass movements to end the war in Vietnam and mobilizations for nuclear disarmament, Daniel Berrigan diagnosed normalcy as a disease and labeled it an obstacle to peace

“I am convinced that if we are to get on to the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values”